Greek Mythology in Texts: A Brief Reference For All of Those Who Want to Learn More About This Subject
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Written specially for a younger audience, this work presents, in a very succinct and simple way, 23 books from the Antiquity which are particularly important for all of those who want to learn more about Greek and Latin Mythology through its original textual sources.
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Greek Mythology in Texts - Miguel Carvalho Abrantes
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A brief reference for all of those who want to learn more about this subject
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Miguel Carvalho Abrantes
Dedicated to all of those who, in some way, showed me their interest for the myths of Classical Antiquity.
Index
1. Introduction.......................................................1
2.1 Hesiod’s Theogony and Works and Days................5
2.2 The Iliad, attributed to Homer..................8
2.3 The Odyssey, attributed to Homer.........12
2.4 The Homeric Hymns...................................14
2.5 The tragedies of Aeschylus......................16
2.6 The tragedies of Euripides.......................18
2.7 The tragedies of Sophocles......................21
2.8 The Argonautica, by Apollonius of Rhodes................22
2.9 Alexandra, attributed to Lycophron......23
2.10 The Library, attributed to Apollodorus................25
2.11 The Aeneid of Virgil.................................27
2.12 The Fables of Hyginus.............................29
2.13 The Metamorphoses of Ovid..................31
2.14 The Thebaid of Statius............................33
2.15 The works of Lucian of Samosata........35
2.16 The Posthomerica by Quintus of Smyrna................37
2.17 The Dionysiaca of Nonnus......................39
2.18 The Mythologies of Fulgentius.............41
2.19 The Vatican Mythographers..................42
2.20 The Chiliades of John Tzetzes...............44
3. Three secondary texts..................................46
4. Bibliography and resources........................48
1. Introduction
A major problem that most works on Greek Mythology have is considering myths as static identities. If we take into account that around five hundred years separate the first texts of the Iliad from the writings of authors such as Ovid and Fulgentius, we can easily understand that the way in which those authors knew the same characters was not the same. In the same way that the greek Zeus is not precisely the same as the latin Jupiter[1], or that there are myths of the roman Hercules that never appear associated with the greek Heracles, similar situations also occur with many other mythological figures.
We can consider the case of Medea. What are the most famous elements of this myth? A reader would definitely mention the fact that the heroine, in order to have her revenge from Jason’s own actions, killed her own children. And, in fact, more recent authors repeatedly mention that famous episode from Euripides’ tragedy, but we also know there was at least one version